Word: perfection
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Both Mower and Matthews South finished their regular league play undefeated. Mower had a perfect record of nine wins, no losses, and no ties, but Matthews South sported a tie with last place Dudley to spell its perfect record...
President Conant, who carries the main responsibility for selecting a dean, has delayed for two years in his search for a perfect administrator-artist. Burned once by the Gropius-Hudnut clash, he has shied from trying a similar combination. For many years, however, Design's faculty worked together smoothly, and the school led its field. It broke down, not basically because of personalities, but mainly because of a mounting deficit which forced Hudnut to slash Gropius' teaching program...
...tough one for Yale to lose," he continued. "Not only did it spoil a perfect season for Jack Marshall (the Yale coach), but deprived all the players from getting major Y's." Like Harvard, Yale awards major letters to an undefeated team in a minor sport...
...restive neighbor winding his watch." Wrote Albert Goldberg of the Times: "Perhaps only a musician can appreciate the extreme technical discipline involved ... It makes no obvious appeal to anything within the range of the average listener's experience, yet by its very starkness it creates a perfect setting . . . for the old English texts involved. Once again, it would seem, Stravinsky has opened new paths...
...piano, bassoon, oboc, clarinet, and French horn, the work in its recast piano quartet form still shows signs of woodwind writing. Nevertheless, it is a sprightly, tuneful piece with more than a few melodic and harmonic surprises worthy of the later Beethoven. The performance was fresh, idiomatic and perfect in every way. Balsam's personality seemed to be the dominating one. The group followed his beat, not Gorodzky's, and the piano part was emphasized whenever possible...